| 11.01.06 |
(January 4 when the Rime Ice and Snow Festival was opened, a pure white landscape of "blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees" appeared in the river city.) On the morning of January 4, the Sixteenth International China Jilin Rime Ice and Snow Festival was opened at Beida Lake ski field in Jilin City. Deputy Governor Chen Weigen and the All-China Sports Federation leaders attended the opening ceremony. The Jilin Rime Ice and Snow Festival by virtue of "rime", the greatest wonder in the world, is an influential large-scale tourism festival in the province, and has formed a stable source market in the South, Hong Kong, Macao and other regions. As the integration of Changchun and Jilin is speeding up and Jilin City is accelerating the upgrade of the tourism industry, this time will further polish the rime, skiing, ice-free river and other tourism brands. As early as a month ago, the province held a press conference on this rime ice and snow festival in Beijing, and opened the weekend Beijing-Jilin ski passenger train, etc., to expand source of tourists. Early this morning, as if welcoming the guests from all over the world, the magic fairy of rime came to the river city, so that the festive city showed a pure white landscape of "blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees", which attracted many domestic and foreign tourists to stop beside the Songhua River for picture taking. The Beida Lake ski field decorated by red lanterns and exquisite snow sculptures was overflown with enthusiasm. 180 single-board and dual-board snow skiers dashed down from the 1000-meter trail, which was followed by horse show, snowfield parade and other activities. More than 160 foreign friends and Jilin City s college students dressed in colorful costumes and lively danced, bringing the opening ceremony to a climax. The river city, with "Watching the wonder of rime, experience the skiing passion and feel the hot spring culture" as the theme, has designed 8 series and 48 activities for the current festival, including the National Winter Swimming Invitational, spa culture tourism and trade carnival. At 10:30 am, the ice and snow festival activities started with a firing. The first event is the first national winter outward bound competition held at the Beida Lake. It is understood that this is the first time for the Chinese Mountaineering Association to attempt to organize such competition in the winter. 16 professional teams and 12 amateur teams from more than 10 provinces and municipalities took part in the competition. At the competition terrain, the professional teams competed with each other in snow sledge, snow house building, etc. In contrast, the competition between the amateur teams was more interesting: 50 participants were farmers from Beida Lake Town. They competed with each other in "big rush to transport the harvest", "strive to prosper hand in hand", "happiness on the field road" and "filling bamboo basket with golden bricks" and other events with local characteristics by using wheelbarrows, baskets, poles and other tools, displaying the fun of farmers in the Northeast. At 13:00, at the river bank west of Linjiangmen Bridge in Jilin City, the National Winter Swimming Invitational started. 80 competitors from Hebei, Liaoning and Jilin and other 3 cities took part in the event. After 1 hour of race, Jilin Songjiang team, and Shijiazhuang team and Shenyang team respectively won top three in the team competition. At 14:00, at the square in front of Songjiang Middle Road Municipal Government and other sections, "full nostalgia" and other 19 community Yangko teams jointly staged a Yangko dance parade, striking up the joyous rhythm of the festival. At night, tens of thousands of prayer lanterns were lightened up along the Songhua River. The spotted candlelight flew with wave toward the east against the neon on both banks, reposing the good wishes of the river city s people for the future. As the water lanterns flew away, more than 20,000 pieces of fireworks were shot up to the sky at the sailing plaza on the south bank of the Songhua River. Gorgeous fireworks shined red the smile of the river city s people. |
